What is your Christmas main meal menu? *title edited by MNHQ at OP's request*

[Breastfeedingworries]

Okay ladies I bet this has been done to dealth! But I’m helping with the cooking this year (last two years Dd was so little and I was busy with her) and it got me thinking we make every type of potato!

So I’m wondering what’s it like in all your houses 🏡

Here’s my list: 🎄🎄🎄

Roast leg of lamb, stuffed with Rosemary, mint and rubbed with an oil concoction, which my sister keeps a secret! Last year was Turkey...
Dolphin while potatoes (I can’t spell it 🤣 so I’m leaving it this way)
Roast potatoes with goose fat
Mashed potatoes with chives and cream butter
New potatoes in garlic butter
Roast peppers
Creamed leeks (so leeks cooked in cream)
Peas sweet corn and onions in a mix
Honey carrots 🥕
Stuffing usually mixed with sausage and home made (traditionally a bit burnt)
Pigs in blankets (always shop bought)
Yorkshire puddings (controversial!)

Okay ladies show some Christmas Spirit, and give us ideas for years to come!

Bet I’ve missed something off my list and will add when I remember it. It’s so much food isn’t it! Madness over one meal lol 😂

We’re having:
Goose
Roast potatoes
Parsnips (Aunt Bessie’s as she does them better than me)
Carrots/broccoli/green beans/peas (probably not all but not sure which)
Red cabbage
Cranberry and chestnut stuffing

I’m currently at a loss for what to make as a starter. Past three years I’ve done prawn cocktail which everybody loves but I want to do something different. So far I’ve been through three different ideas and I’m still not sure. If I don’t pick soon I won’t have ingredients!

Same goes for pudding. I’d like to try (for the first time every) apple or peach cobbler. We’ve never had a cobbler but generally love anything that goes with my custard.

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I’m cooking for 6 so will be watching this thread to see what you’re all doing

OP, your menu sounds fantastic! IMO yorkshires should be served with every roast and cooking something in cream can only make it better

Hi both! Wow this thread wasn’t as popular as I’d hoped 🙈😂

Red cabbage! Knew I’d forgotten something.

Okay to sauce things up I’ll tell a secret with every post 🤫

the Yorkshire’s aren’t homemade, I once snorted cocaine!

I'll join in.... We're having beef but can't remember what veg is best to go with it - suggestions welcome!

I've done coke and more.... AND I MISS IT SOMETIMES

Creamed leeks (so leeks cooked in cream)

Glad you cleared that up.

Prawn cocktail

Shin of beef
Mash and roast potatoes
Pigs in blankets
Peas and carrots and broccoli.

Cheese board
Chocolate
Crisps
Bailleys and port

We are having duck this year with stuffing and pigs in blankets. Maybe some red cabbage. Roast potatoes, parsnips, port sauce. Veg I keep simple as dd hates it fiddled about with. So carrots, broccoli,maybe peas. I may or may not do yorkies, depending on mood, oven pace, Prosecco intake.

4 different types of potato OP?

I’d move I tomorrow, sadly I abhor lamb you win some, and you loose some

Lamb tikka vindaloo
Ada kata lamb
Pilau rice
Garlic and coriander naan
Onion Bhaji

Chocolate

So mine is
Turkey I'm crowning myself, I use the wings and giblets etc for the gravy, topped with streaky bacon and I'll put loads of herb butter under the skin and rosemary up the inside
One normal sausagemeat stuffing done in stuffing balls.
One black pudding and herb stuffing wrapped in bacon done in a loaf tin
Beef wellington with herb crust
Roast potatoes
Dauphinoise potato
Mixed veg like red cabbage, honey and orange roast carrots, and broccoli as it's DDs preferred veg
Parnsips for dp

We are having a starter of homemaker bread and pate though and smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast

Turkey
Sage n onion stuffing
Pig in blankets
Roast potatoes
Carrots
Brussels (steamed)
Mashed swede (lots of pepper and butter)
Cauli (maybe cheesed)
Leeks (steamed)
Gravy

Piled high!

Oh, I forgot the roast parsnips

Champagne
Sashimi
Scallops
Seafood linguini
Good niche beer

Crusty bread
Cheeses
Tiramisu
Posh chocolates
Baileys

I’m not going to butcher this year but fishmonger

We're very traditional.

Prawn cocktail done the old fashioned way.

Turkey crown.
Roast and mash spuds.
Roast carrots and parsnips
Sprouts
Red cabbage
Savoy cabbage
Brocolli
Yorks puds
Pigs in blanket
Stuffing

Whichever cheesecake and Whichever trifle looks the best.

I haven't decided on the sides for definite.
Turkey
Roast potatoes
Sausage meat stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Roast parsnips
Carrots - roasted for DH and I, boiled for DC
Red cabbage and apple
Sprouts with bacon and chestnuts
Maybe another vegetable?
Maybe Yorkshire puddings
Cranberry sauce
Gravy

Turkey
Stuffing - might make my own with sausagemeat and chestnuts or I might just buy a pack of readymade but I like it to be a sausagemeat one.
Pigs in Blankets
Roast Potatoes
Carrots (Chantenay)
Roast Parsnips
Red Cabbage
Sprouts
Yorkshire puds
Cauliflower Cheese

I wouldn't normally do the last two but DC2 is fussy and these are two things that she will eat.

On the side we have gravy, bread sauce and cranberry sauce.

Chicken crown
Leek and smoked cheese pithivier
Roast potatoes and parsnips
Brussel sprouts
Carrots and peas
Gravy
Cheese sauce
Stuffing
Sausage and Yorkshire pud for ds

Pudding -
Choice of...Xmas pud, brownie and ice cream and lemon cheesecake.

Mostly the usual but taking ideas from here for some different sides

Gorgonzola and honey hasselback potatoes
Cheeseboard
Pastry tarts - goats cheese and cherry tomato

Roast chicken
Roast Leg of lamb
Honey and balsamic glazed carrots and parsnips
Buttered tenderstem broccoli
Stuffing
Yorkshire pud
Gravy

Cheats Chocolate churro Xmas tree
Homemade fig and honey cheesecake
Malteser tray bake for the kids

@lavenderlou

Turkey Stuffing - might make my own with sausagemeat and chestnuts or I might just buy a pack of readymade but I like it to be a sausagemeat one. Pigs in Blankets Roast Potatoes Carrots (Chantenay) Roast Parsnips Red Cabbage Sprouts Yorkshire puds Cauliflower Cheese

I wouldn't normally do the last two but DC2 is fussy and these are two things that she will eat.

On the side we have gravy, bread sauce and cranberry sauce.

Exactly the same as this. Historically my family never had Yorkshires or cauli cheese but DH insists on it these days. We cook the cauli cheese the night before and have with Xmas ham.

Starter this year scallops and prawns in white wine. Afters is figgy pudding or some sort of supermarket cheesecake/chocolate confection.

Main: beef , and a 3 bird roast
Roast and mashed potatoes
Carrots, peas, roast parsnips, broccoli
Pigs in blankets
Yorkshire puddings
Stuffing balls and gravy, plus horseradish and cranberry sauce.

Pudding will be christmas pudding or white chocolate and cherry cheesecake.

I love the idea of dolphin while potatoes.

We're having a 5 bird roast, with roasties, mash, roast parsnips, cauliflower cheese, corn on the cob and sprouts fried with bacon bits, pigs in blankets, bread sauce, yorkshire puddings, cranberry sauce, gravy.

Scallops to start and Yule log to finish.

Roast turkey
Pigs in blankets (home made with sage)
Stuffing (sage and onion, out of packet)
Bread sauce (packet)
Cranberry sauce
Gravy
Roast potatoes (garlic and rosemary)
Honey roast carrots and parsnips
Peas
Brussel sprouts (probably sauted with leaks)

And I think I might do mashed potatoes this year too although I don't normally. Also will do some Yorkshire puddings this year as the kids love them but I dont normally.

Home made gingerbread cake with gingerbread christmas trees on top for dessert, Crement to drink!

3 families forming a bubble . 12 adults , 1 toddler

Prawn cocktail starter

Turkey crown , roast beef and gammon cooking in Coca-Cola

Pigs in blankets, sausage meat cranberry stuffing , dried sage onion stuffing balls , sausage meat wrapped in bacon parcel

Roast potatoes, cauliflower cheese, bacon brussel sprouts, glazed carrots , red cabbage

Gravy, bread sauce, cranberry sauce

Mince pies, trifle, Yule log, raspberry pavlova, vienetta, baileys cream , double cream

Matchmakers, after eights, baileys

This is obscene once I write it down but all 3 families will split the leftovers for the all important Boxing Day to new year leftovers meals

They are called dolphin-nose potatoes in my house

For the first time in 22 years at the grand old age of 40, I will not be at parents or in-laws for Christmas so sadly have to cook myself rather than slob on the sofa and drink gin all day.

Using the thread to generate a shopping list!